THIEVES!

No not the Tories, although I am led to believe that Tory is gaelic for 'robber' (which may or may not be true, but apt nonetheless), but the scumbag that skimmed my bank card and trousered several hundreds of our hard earned out of our account. I knew living in London would bring with it all sorts of interesting experiences and I did think that having money electronically half-inched was a distinct possibility, but actually seeing the reality of your account being abused wasn't that much fun. In saying that, even less fun was the bank saying that since my card was present at the transactions (which it most certainly wasn't as it was in my pocket on my person) they couldn't consider it fraud. When I pointed out to them that my card was not present but a copy of it may have been they asked if I was sure I wanted to 'take it forward as fraud'? No no, just you let some criminal continue stealing our money, that sounds like a great idea to me. Where do these people get their crazy ideas from?

Missing the point.

Have a look at this. Here's a brief synopsis:

Dr Charlton said: "The UK Government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.
"Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes."
The fact that so few students from poor families get into Oxbridge is not down to "prejudice" but "meritocracy", he said.

Of course it is Dr Charlton, that's all there really is to the story isn't it? Nothing to see here people, move along. Just another apologist for the retention of the privileged position of Oxbridge and the nepotism that's made Britain Great. How a supposedly learned academic can be so blinkered and unable to engage with the reality is frankly staggering. People are obviously just smarter the more money they have! If I'd only realised earlier I'd have just set about earning money and accumulating as many material possessions as possible and sat their while my brain grew. I'm glad I've finally seen the light, I don't think I'll bother going to my doctoral graduation now. I'll just get myself a credit card and start spending money I don't have. Oh, and get a nice Barrett house as well.

Things wot I saw in London over the last week.

I saw things, things I never thought I'd see.

Like a fat Richie lookalike:


And a man upside down in a bin (not really):


Then a giant gorilla hand/chair going into a doorway:


The gorilla hand came from a wee antique shop where Mitch and I have bought some furniture, but alas was far too big for our
humble abode sadly.

The things you see in the Big Smoke eh? Crazy days people.

Web 2.0 shenanigans.

Via Richie I signed up to Blip.fm. Have a shifty here.

Mmmmm!

Yum!

I bothered the Fourth Estate again.

But of course I forgot to tell you. Here it's. it was written in response to this. I couldn't let it lie you see...

Theses.

Carrying these things just about killed me: